While humanity’s efforts to explore space continue, NASA’s remain James Webb Space Telescope continues to offer us new discoveries. The last of these discoveries involved two galaxies 33 billion light-years away. These galaxies, two of the most distant galaxies ever discovered, are so far away that they may be gone for thousands of years before we can see them.

Two of the most distant galaxies

Astronomers from Penn State James WebbHe used his skills to detect celestial bodies behind the Pandora star cluster, which is 3.5 billion light years away from our planet. At the end of this survey, the second and fourth most distant galaxies discovered to date were imaged.

continues his studies at Penn State and JWST DISCOVER researcher in the team BingjieWangIn his statement, he emphasized the importance of discovering ancient galaxies. Cheek, “We know so little about the early universe that the only way to learn about that period and test our theories about the formation and evolution of early galaxies is to use these very distant galaxies.” he said.

The appearance of these two galaxies is slightly different from that of other ancient galaxies. One of the galaxies looks like a peeled peanut, and the other looks like a shiny ball. The fact that early galaxies could have such different structures raises some questions. It is estimated that these galaxies formed 330 million years after the first moments of the universe. Since then, the light coming from these galaxies has traveled 13.4 billion years. of galaxies 33 billion light years The reason for this distance is that the universe is also expanding. You can think of it like the chocolate pieces on a rising cake moving away from each other as the cake rises.

Researchers say these are two galaxies It contains very little metal and it shows that they are quickly forming new stars. This is seen as a finding that supports the big bang theory.

Research, Astrophysical diary lettersIt was published in .